Waste Land, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deservedly nominated at this year’s Oscars as Best Documentary Feature, Lucy Walker’s life-affirming film Waste Land, travels to the squalor of Rio de Janeiro, which boasts the largest landfill site in the world.
Alliance between the Arctic and Tropics
Inuit leaders seek common front against climate warming.
Last Chance Beach, Battling Erosion in Barbados
Around Barbados, the most serious threat to the beaches is the loss of coral reefs through nearshore pollution, primarily caused by domestic sewage, and physical clearing. As the reefs die, they lose their ability to reduce the energy and erosive force of incoming waves.
Sundarbans’ Tigers Further Pushed Towards Extinction by Rising Sea Levels
An expected sea level rise of 28 cm above 2000 levels may cause the remaining tiger habitat in the Sundarbans to decline by 96 percent, pushing the total population to fewer than 20 breeding tigers, according to a study.
Bangladesh’s Project to Develop and Protect Southern Coastal Region
Bangladesh’s coastal area covers about 20% of the country and over thirty percent of the net cultivable area. The saline sea waters have been pushing up inland and progressively more and more areas are meeting a similar fate.
68 Percent of New England and Mid-Atlantic Beaches Are Eroding
An assessment of coastal change over the past 150 years has found 68 percent of beaches in the New England and Mid-Atlantic region are eroding.
Reefs at Risk Report, Revisited: A Wakeup Call to Protect Coral
The new Reefs at Risk Revisited report is out, 13 years after the original Reefs at Risk, which was the first global assessment of the threats to Earth’s coral reefs and painted an alarming picture of their future. Today’s edition is even less rosy: three-quarters of the world’s coral reefs are at risk due to overfishing, pollution, climate change and other factors.
Impacts Of Intensive Salmon Farming On Coastal Ecosystems
A new salmon-farming trade deal with China has terrifying implications on Scotland’s coastal ecosystem.
50 million environmental refugees by 2020, experts say
These are people who can no longer gain a secure livelihood in their homelands because of drought, soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and other environmental problems, together with the associated problems of population pressures and profound poverty.